Heart
Dir. Ga-young Jeong / Dur. 70 mins / Country. South Korea
Festival Strand:- Love
In A Nutshell:- A young woman having difficulty with a married man she’s having an affair with visits a previous married lover for advice.
The Good:- It’s a pleasingly quirky concept - Ga-young (named after the writer, director and star) visits her previous lover - a married man - for advice about the married man she’s currently seeing. The film was compared to Fleabag and I get the comparison; like Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s play/series, this film follows a woman struggling her way through personal relationships in a messy and chaotic fashion. It had some enjoyable moments of humour and the lo-fi, almost play-like staging work in its favour. Jeong makes for an engaging and likeable lead and it’s very much her film.
The Bad:- It loses its way in the last section when it becomes about her making a film about the events that form the beginning of the film. It’s a little too meta and makes the film feel as if it ran out of ideas az to where to go. Given that it’s got a very short running time anyway, it’s a little disappointing that it feels like it doesn't have enough to sustain even that.
The Verdict:- An engaging pair of leads and sokme funny dialogue keeps the interest in this off-kilter romantic comedy even if it does run out of steam some time before the end.
The Venue / Intro / Q&A:- Back in the uncomfortable ICA for this one and no intro or Q&A this time round.
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